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Saturday, May 02, 2009
 
Two Terrific Posts at the Daily Howler

This has always struck me as a very liberal site, but they're on the money today on Olbermann's sexism:

Criticizing Prejean for this stance, and for her new affiliations, is perfectly OK, of course—although she simply isn’t an important public figure. But Prejean’s stance has nothing to do with her “boobs,” or with Olbermann’s undying need to denigrate women’s intelligence and joke about women’s bodies. The fact that this keeps occurring on a “progressive” TV show is a truly amazing fact about an amazing corporate era. Even more amazing: The fact that a screaming mess like this would then be thrown to a woman host. The fact that few progressives on the “liberal web” will ever say boo about this.


And on No Child Left Behind (Scroll down):

In our view, we’d all be better off if our newspapers and TV shows paid more attention to the actual data produced by this ballyhooed testing program—data which fly in the face of the gloomy portrait our president offered, somewhat strangely, just last month. If we actually care about low-income and minority kids, we might want to teach ourselves the facts about their historical progress—even before we renew our tedious, often self-involved fights about a highly politicized program. (But teacher! We want to criticize Bush!)


Highly recommended!
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
 
Ross Douthat's Debut

I was pleased to see him get a column at the NY Times and this is a pretty good debut:

Watching Dick Cheney defend the Bush administration’s interrogation policies, it’s been hard to escape the impression that both the Republican Party and the country would be better off today if Cheney, rather than John McCain, had been a candidate for president in 2008.


Never mind Cheney's heart problems, never mind that the Republicans desperately needed to distance themselves from Bush in 2008, never mind that Cheney had a lower approval rating than used car salesmen; he would have been better than McCain for the GOP?

But he's got a good rationale:

As a candidate, Cheney would have doubtless been as disciplined and ideologically consistent as McCain was feckless. In debates with Barack Obama, he would have been as cuttingly effective as he was in his encounters with Joe Lieberman and John Edwards in 2000 and 2004 respectively. And when he went down to a landslide loss, the conservative movement might – might! – have been jolted into the kind of rethinking that’s necessary if it hopes to regain power.


Interesting argument. I am sort of to the point where I wish McCain had not gotten the nomination; just because I'd be able to be one of the the people saying "I told you so!"
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